How many Roman Catholics live in Canada?

-- Anne (bville@onlink.net), March 01, 1998

Answers

12.551 000 Catholics are in Canada 1997 (Vatican Information Services)

-- Andy Brender (Abrender7@aol.com), August 10, 1998.

75% of CAnadians are Roman Catholic because the pope said so!

-- nikki (adga@hotmail.com), September 17, 2003.

If there are 12million Catholics, and the CIA World Factbook has the population of Canada at 32million (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html) then 1/3rd of the Canadian population is Catholic. Not an insignificant population....

In Christ, Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), September 18, 2003.

The latest numbers posted at the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops site are:

12,494,903 Catholics 8801 Priests 23,684 Religious 63 Latin-rite Dioceses 7 Eastern Churches 1 Military Ordinariate

-- Ed (catholic4444@yahoo.ca), September 19, 2003.